He who never made a mistake never made a discovery. -Samuel Smiles

 

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.


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This quote is just one of 8 total Samuel Smiles quotes in our collection. Samuel Smiles is known for saying 'He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

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Man cannot aspire if he looks down; if he rises, he must look up.

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He who never made a mistake never made a discovery. -Samuel Smiles
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Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

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'Where there is a will there is a way,' is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself. -Samuel Smiles
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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

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